Welcome to our site! We are the Wîcihitowin Indigenous Student Alliance (WISA)

We are an alliance of Indigenous students at Athabasca University, each from different backgrounds but all with a common vision of seeing culturally informed, safe and inclusive education experiences at AU for all First Nations, Métis and Inuit students!

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We named ourselves the Wîcihitowin Indigenous Student Alliance. Wîcihitowin means "the act of helping or supporting one another" in Cree. The intent of choosing this word was to honour the efforts to be a collective, equal, peer-based group that envisions a student body that lifts each other up.